"And we stored the NAS in a box next to a speaker with a huge magnet for a month. And two drives failed."
I promise you, that's not what killed your hard drives. :)
It is many times more likely that them just sitting in storage, after presumably running 24/7 for years, is what did them in. Magnets don't "kill" hard drives; at worst they'd wipe the data (which never happens with home/speaker magnets), not wreck the drive itself.
Anyway, good to see someone spreading the word of "an external drive is not a backup for you photos", and providing some useful info/ideas!
Ok, one last thing: "RAID is not a backup". RAID is for uptime, not backup. :)
Interesting. I never suspected the fact that just storing the hard drives could have caused that failure. I'm still suspecting the magnet in the speaker because I had faulty sectors before the drives gave way.
Ha, we'll never know. :)
And thanks for pointing that out: RAID is not a backup. That should be said over and over again.
Now the vibrations from the speaker could def bork a drive or two. Some of the drives aggressive head parking along with some vibrations :D. Did you get smart output from the drives?
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"And we stored the NAS in a box next to a speaker with a huge magnet for a month. And two drives failed."
I promise you, that's not what killed your hard drives. :)
It is many times more likely that them just sitting in storage, after presumably running 24/7 for years, is what did them in. Magnets don't "kill" hard drives; at worst they'd wipe the data (which never happens with home/speaker magnets), not wreck the drive itself.
Anyway, good to see someone spreading the word of "an external drive is not a backup for you photos", and providing some useful info/ideas!
Ok, one last thing: "RAID is not a backup". RAID is for uptime, not backup. :)
Interesting. I never suspected the fact that just storing the hard drives could have caused that failure. I'm still suspecting the magnet in the speaker because I had faulty sectors before the drives gave way.
Ha, we'll never know. :)
And thanks for pointing that out: RAID is not a backup. That should be said over and over again.
Now the vibrations from the speaker could def bork a drive or two. Some of the drives aggressive head parking along with some vibrations :D. Did you get smart output from the drives?